In Reply to: The "ancients" would laugh at our idea of listening to recorded posted by tinear on November 10, 2011 at 15:18:31:
Hi tinear - as Chris implies, this would be the label's choice, not the performers in general - the performers have less and less control of what the recording actually sounds like nowadays. And almost any big commercial release is going to be heavily edited, especially since this is so ridiculously easy with digital technology. There is really no such thing anymore as a commercial recording that is unedited - I think there was a long thread about this about a year ago. Even most audiophiles don't really have any idea just how much editing is done on commercial recordings. Don't get me started on the unfortunate side effects of this on live performances.
Pretty much, if you want to hear an unedited performance, you need to listen to radio broadcasts of symphony concerts. And even these are usually cobbled together from different nights (first couple of movements of the symphony from Saturday, next couple from Sunday, etc.), though without any actual editing. I am a member of the broadcast committee of my orchestra, so I get to help choose what is broadcast from our subscription concerts (many orchestra's musicians do not get a say in this!). Very rarely do we end up broadcasting the entire program from just one of the performances. Only once, maybe twice in a season is a concert actually broadcast live while it is happening, and this is always advertised.
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